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Most Money Won On A Game Show: The 7 Biggest Money Winners In Game Show History
If you've ever dreamed of winning money on a game show, check here to see just how much you can bring home. Hint: it's a lot.
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A Japanese Insurer Is Being Sued For More Than $1 Billion In Damages Over A Famous Van Gogh Painting Stolen By The Nazis
The surviving heirs of Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy want the painting back, $690 million in damages for Sompo's alleged "unjust enrichment" in acquiring the painting, and another $750 million in punitive damages
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You Can't Take It With You! Scottish Lottery Winner Blew Through $50 Million In The Eight Years Before His Death
Weir, who passed away of sepsis and an injury to his kidneys at the age of 71, won what is still one of the largest European lottery jackpots of all time.
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8-Year-Old Diamond Heiress Devanshi Sanghvi Gives Up $61 Million Fortune To Become A Nun
Sanghvi was set to eventually inherit the family fortune behind the Sangvhi and Sons diamond company, but that she has waived her inheritance by taking the vow of renunciation known as "diksha" before thousands of in-person witnesses.
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Feds Seize Roughly $700 Million In Financial Assets Connected To Sam Bankman-Fried
The biggest proportion of the assets by far is made up of more than 55 million Robinhood shares valued at an estimated $526 million. But since the shares are alleged by prosecutors as having been purchased with funds stolen from bilked FTX consumers, their true ownership remains in limbo.
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An Old Nazi Treasure Map May Hide A Secret Cache Of Gold And Gems Worth Millions
A Dutch Archives spokesperson points out that the treasure may well have already been dug up ages ago, but the hope of striking it rich on buried loot is too enticing to just let it go without a try.
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Barbados Reportedly Wants To Make "Fabulously Wealthy" British Politician The First Individual To Pay Slavery Reparations
One plan is to convert Drax Hall in Barbados to "an Afro-centric museum" and low income housing, and for Drax himself to pay for at least some of the work that would be necessary for that to happen.
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The Time Soccer Legend Pelé Got Paid $120,000 To Tie His Shoes
Pelé was set to play with Brazil against Peru in the 1970 World Cup semi-final, and Puma approached the team's most famous player with an offer for $120,000 – or about $1 million in today's dollars.
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Judge Strips Alex Jones Of Bankruptcy Protection Against $1.5 Billion Sandy Hook Defamation Ruling
According to Jones's own attorneys, he needs a bump in salary in order to keep doing his "Infowars" program, which he needs to do in order to pay off the various rulings against him.
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Kevin O'Leary Admits He Lost $15 Million Payday From The Collapse Of FTX
Famous investor Kevin O'Leary is admitting he got taken in by what he's now describing as "groupthink" in his decision to only invest in but publicly endorse the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
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Matt Damon-Endorsed Crypto Firm Accidentally Sent Someone $10 Million Instead Of $100 – So She Went Out And Bought A Mansion
Crypto.com intended to send Thevamanogari Manivel of Melbourne, Australia a refund for $100 in May of 2021. Instead, a technical error resulted in a payment of $10,474,143.
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Last Year Amy Coney Barrett Earned $425,000 In Book Royalties And Fees, The Most Of Anyone On The Supreme Court
Altogether, Supreme Court justices took home about $800,000 in book royalties and advances over the course of last year, meaning that well over half that total was earned by Justice Barrett herself.
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Want To Make A Ton Of Money? Become A California Lifeguard
Looking for a career change? Want to make more money than most doctors, lawyers and bankers? Consider becoming a California lifeguard!
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Eagle Eyed Internet Sleuths May Have Just Spotted A $150 Million Missing Picasso Hanging In Imelda Marcos' Living Room
The painting first went missing in 2014, when it and seven other expensive paintings owned by the Marcos family were the target of a seizure by anti-corruption authorities. But then it turned out the one seized was actually a fake.
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Talent Agency CEO Ari Emmanuel Made An Enormous Amount Of Money Last Year
Endeavor co-foudner and co-CEO Ari Emmanuel made more money in 2021 than just about any corporate executive on the planet.